Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
CITY AND COUNTY
Joined in q Grand Effort to Establish
Factories and Build Up
Home Markets.
The Tarrant County COOPERATIVE Manu-.
featuring and Agricultural Bureau an
Established observation-disclosures,

a large meeting Of the solid and sub
stantial citizens of Tarrant county and
Fort Worth met at the courthouse to hear
the report OF the committee appointed at
& former meeting. Judge c. c. Cum
mings called the meeting to order and
fully explained Its object for the benefit
Of those who did not hear the opening
speeches.
On motion Mr.. L. B. Imboden was
elected secretary.
COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
The secretary then read the following
report submitted by the committees
To Judge c. q. Cummings Temporary Chair
man of Tarrant County Cooperative Manu-
featuring and Agricultural Bureau:
DEAR SIR: After much thought and
mature elaboration, your committee
beg leave TO make the following preamble
and report:
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, Tarrant county contains 57G,
900 acres of land, with unsurpassed
fertility for the various crops, growing
COTn, wheat, oats, cotton, hemp and fax,
potatoes of all kinds il abundance, and in
many places the varied fruit crops do ex-
ceedingly well; we can have vegetables
the year round; stock OF sIl classes do
well; our best land will readily yield $50
pounds of lint cotton per acre by planting
improved seed, giving seed capacity equal
to 1900 pounds; we have known as many
as 800 bushels of sweet potatoes grown
on one acre; from fifty to seventy-tive
bushels Of Irish potatoes is common. We
often grow forty bushels of wheat on one
acre, eighty bushels of oats, seventy of
barley, sixty of corn. The yield of the
castor bean is immense. Sugar-beet and
sorghum grow well, and IL the cross
tImbers the ribbon cane can be made
success. A wheat crop and stock pea
crop can be made the same year on the
same land. We can make an Irish potato
crop and q cotton crop on the same lsnd
the same year. We can even grow a corn
crop with Irish potatoes. Cabbage and
onions can be grown on the same land the
same yesr.
Railroad facilities and water privileges
in Fort Worth are unsurpassed by any
city in the state. These thoughts lead
your committee to make the following re-
port:
That foundries, mills and factories of
all descriptions can be operated here very
cheaply, which will give employment ana
to thousands of persons who !
are ct present Idle and in want of profitg- f!
Bile employment. We must have diver |
sity of labor TO have continued prosperity. !
We must learn economy as well as indus |
try, by saving transportation and furnish |
inc a. home market for cur small crops. |
To have prosperity we must have healthy |
and profitable employment. We must |
draw our people from vice by example, |
Offering inQucement in the way Of remun-
erative employment. It has been
said that "idleness IS the |
DEVILS workshop" This being con-
coded your committee recommend |
that cooperative buresu be organized |
for the purpose Of aiding manufactures |
and encouraging agricultural industries; |
that the name Of this cooperative aSsoci- |
alton be known as the Tarrant County Co. /
operative Manufacturing and Agricultu- |
raj Bureau; that the object of said bureau |
shall be to aid in the various manufactur- |
ing industries and to encourage the varid |
agricultural interests. We recommend |
hat committee of one from each voting /
precinct in the county, with two /
rom each ward in the city |
be appointed as an executive board, and |
hat this committee or board so created,
De authorized to procure stock books, to
select and appoint from their members
/ temporary president, yice-presid emit,
secretary, and such other officers as
hey may see fit, for the purpose of or
,anizing this bureau; that the stock be
divided into shares of 500 each; that it
De paid in monthly installments of So
Zach month, until the whole share or
stock is paid, st which time certificates
II said stock may be issued to the |
purchasers. We further recommend said |
committee have blank notes printed |